Jeryl Lynn Hilleman with A Case of the Mumps
Jeryl Lynn Hilleman with A Case of the Mumps
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- Description (Brief)
- A print of a 1963 photograph documenting Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, sick with a case of the mumps. Jeryl Lynn's father, Dr. Maurice R. Hilleman, developed the Mumpsvax vaccine after isolating a viable mumps strain from Jeryl Lynn during her sickness. The vaccine's mumps virus strain would become known as the Jeryl Lynn strain. The pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme widely distributed this photograph as part of their press release and promotion for the Mumpsvax vaccine. This photograph has handwritten notations on the back.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- photograph, vaccination, mumps
- date made
- ca 1966
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number
- 2017.3081.01
- catalog number
- 2017.3081.01
- nonaccession number
- 2017.3081
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hilleman Family: Lorraine W. Hilleman, Jeryl Lynn Hilleman, and Kirsten Jeanne Hilleman
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Antibody Initiative: Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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